Employment, in a critical situation: unemployment grew and more and more people are looking for work

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The unemployment rate was 7.3% of the economically active population; a year ago, it was 6.8%. This is official data for the second quarter of this year. Women and neighbourhoods in the South are the most affected.

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Between July and September last year, about 1.3 million Argentines had no work. The figure, which was spread on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec), showed an annual deterioration in employment levels: not only were there more unemployed, but also the number of people working less than 35 hours a week increased and the number of citizens who had one job increased, but were looking for another. In the third quart…